trou-de-loup

1. 1.

   a sloping pit with a stake in the middle used as an obstacle to the enemy

   Broaderpit

Questions about trou-de-loup

What does trou-de-loup mean?

trou-de-loup means "a sloping pit with a stake in the middle used as an obstacle to the enemy".

How many syllables are in trou-de-loup?

trou-de-loup has 3 syllables and divides as trou--de--loup under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is trou-de-loup a common word?

trou-de-loup is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.